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1	Redeeming Love more books like this by Francine Rivers add to wishlist Francine Rivers skillfully retells the biblical love story of Gomer and Hosea as a tale set against the romantic backdrop of the California Gold Rush. The heroine, Angel, is a young woman who was sold into prostitution as a child. Michael Hosea is a godly man sent into Angel's life to draw her into the Savior's redeeming love. Angel expects ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Blood and Thunder: An Epic of the American West more books like this by Hampton Sides add to wishlist Sides's extraordinary book brings the history of the American conquest of the West to ringing life. It is a tale with many heroes and villains, and at the center of it all stands the remarkable figure of Kit Carson--the legendary trapper, scout, and soldier who embodies all the contradictions and ambiguities of the American experience in the West. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.16! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Shadow Country: A New Rendering of the Watson Legend more books like this by Peter Matthiessen add to wishlist This landmark one-volume reworking of Matthiessen's Watson trilogy--"Killing Mister Watson," "Lost Man's River," and "Bone by Bone"--reveals one of America's finest writes at the peak of his career. see all copies from $4.65! new only from $7.48! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Outlander more books like this by Gil Adamson add to wishlist With the stunning prose and captivating mood of great works like Charles Frazier's "Cold Mountain" or early Cormac McCarthy, Adamson's intoxicating debut novel weds a brilliant literary style to the gripping tale of one woman's desperate escape. see all copies from $2.97! new only from $5.89! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Appaloosa more books like this by Robert B Parker add to wishlist Taking a break from his popular Spenser series, Robert B. Parker exchanges the streets of present-day Boston for the dusty trails of a 19th-century mining town in this hard-bitten tale of the Wild West. Virgil Cole is the new marshal in Appaloosa, and he and his deputy, Everett Hitch, are tasked with dealing out justice to rancher Randall Bragg, a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.84! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Dancing at the Rascal Fair more books like this by Ivan Doig add to wishlist A novel set in the highlands of Montana, this is the central volume in Ivan Doig's Montana trilogy about Angus McCaskill, who comes to America from Scotland, becomes a sheep farmer, and falls in love with Anna Ramsey. Doig has written: "My own western existence has bordered the lives of the last homestead generation, the settlers who poured into ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.66! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	One Wish more books like this by Linda Lael Miller add to wishlist As a child, Luke rescues eight-year-old Charity from drowning. She promises to grant one wish, but he doesn't try to cash it in until 15 years later when he comes back to town. His wish involves a romance with Charity, but by then she is engaged to someone else in a loveless match. And Luke has a few secrets to hide. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.67! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Last of the Mohicans more books like this by James Fenimore Cooper add to wishlist The classic frontier adventure story: Deep in the forests of New York State, the woodsman Hawkeye (a.k.a. Natty Bumppo) and his loyal Mohican friends become involved in the bloody French and Indian War. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Little House on the Prairie more books like this by Laura Ingalls Wilder add to wishlist The Ingalls family moves from Wisconsin to Kansas, where they build a log cabin and start up a small farm. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Lake in the Clouds more books like this by Sara Donati add to wishlist In the American colonies in 1802, a half-Indian, half-European young woman named Hannah comes upon an injured runaway slave. She hides him and begins to nurse him back to health, even though his presence puts her family in jeopardy. Then the bounty hunter who is on the fugitive's trail falls in love with Hannah. see all copies from $2.39! new only from $4.83! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Close Range: Wyoming Stories more books like this by E Annie Proulx add to wishlist Eleven stories, all set in the harsh Wyoming landscape, about characters whose desperate lives illuminate a range of human experience that is full of farce, tragedy, and grit. The volume is illustrated with watercolors. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.08! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Children's Blizzard more books like this by David Laskin add to wishlist Drawing on family interviews and memoirs, as well as hundreds of contemporary accounts, here is a meticulous account of the blizzard of January 12, 1888, which killed some 500 settlers in Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota--many of them children lost on their way home from school. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Boone: A Biography more books like this by Robert Morgan, Col. add to wishlist Bestselling author Morgan reveals the complex character of Daniel Boone--a frontiersman whose heroic life was far stranger and more fascinating then the myths that surround him. Extensive endnotes, cultural and historical background material, and maps add to this authoritative work. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.74! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	A Promise to Believe in more books like this by Tracie Peterson add to wishlist Gwen, Beth, and Lacy Gallatin fashion a life for themselves in the Montana wilds, operating a roadhouse that is located at the crossroads of two major stage lines. When their father is accidentally killed, the oldest sister, Gwen, reasons that she's cursed. After all, death seems to haunt her: her mother, now her father...and she was married for a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
15 view cover	Winter Fire more books like this by Elizabeth Lowell add to wishlist Sarah Kennedy wasn't sorry when Hal, her abusive first husband, died, but if only he had told her where he had hidden the Spanish silver. When hard-hearted Case Maxwell lands wounded on her doorstep, Sarah has her first chance at love and material comfort--if she can only melt Case's heart and find Hal's gold. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.02! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier more books like this by Wallace Earle Stegner add to wishlist In this recreation of southern Saskatchewan from 1914 to 1920, Wallace Stegner combines his own memories with history and fictional techniques to create a community, a landscape, and an unforgettable childhood. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.00! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Sign of the Beaver more books like this by Elizabeth George Speare add to wishlist In late 18th-century Maine, 12-year-old Matthew is left alone in his family's newly built cabin for several weeks while his father returns to Massachusetts to fetch the entire family. A series of mishaps leads to Matthew's rescue by the chief of the Beaver tribe. Over a period of months, Matthew teaches an Indian boy, Attean, English, while he ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.02! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	O Pioneers more books like this by Willa Cather add to wishlist Willa Cather's O PIONEERS!, first published in 1913, tells the story of Alexandra Bergson, the daughter of a Swedish pioneering family, who successfully takes over the management of the family farm upon her father's death. The story encompasses Alexandra's difficult relationships with her brothers, Oscar and Lou, her love for a neighbor, Carl ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	End of the Drive more books like this by Louis L'Amour add to wishlist From the papers of beloved author Louis L'Amour, who died in 1988, this collection of previously unpublished stories emerges. Louis L'Amour's trademark themes of danger, challenge, trial, and triumph are set against the familiar backdrop of the Old West. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	When Comes the Spring more books like this by Janette Oke add to wishlist Elizabeth, the cultured young schoolteacher from the East, has braved the western frontier and spent a year teaching in a one-room schoolhouse. How she and Wynn are planning their wedding and their new life together at his outpost in the far north. While Wynn is accustomed to life in the north, Elizabeth is not. Can their love for each other ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Journal of a Trapper more books like this by Osborne Russell, Aubrey L Haines (Editor) add to wishlist 'Reader, if you are in search of a Classical and Scientific tourist, please to lay this 'volume' down, and pass on, for this simply informs you what a Trapper has seen and experienced. But if you wish to peruse a Hunter's rambles among the wild regions of the Rocky Mountains, please to read this and forgive the authors foibles and imperfections, ... see all copies from $2.01! new only from $7.20! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	On the Way Home: The Diary of a Trip from South Dakota to Mansfield Missouri in 1884 more books like this by Laura Ingalls Wilder add to wishlist A reproduction of the actual diary of the author of the "Little House" books. Also included are Rose Wilder Lane's (Laura's daughter) recollections of the 1894 trip. Illustrated with photographs. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.48! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Men of Men more books like this by Wilbur Smith add to wishlist A thriller set in the age of empire, battle and conquest, about a man whose dream begins in the danger and drudgery of the diamond pits and ends on the rich grasslands of Matabeleland, but not before a king and proud warrior nation have paid the price of history. From the author of THE SEVENTH SCROLL. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.01! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	A Love to Last Forever more books like this by Tracie Peterson add to wishlist All Beth Gallatin has really wanted out of life is to settle down in one town, with one man, and raise a family. But with her father's roaming ways, she's always been denied that dream; instead, she found solace in reading romantic books. With her father's passing, she can, for the first time, dare to claim the rugged Montana frontier as her home. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
25 view cover	Way West more books like this by Alfred Bertram Jr Guthrie add to wishlist An enormously entertaining classic, THE WAY WEST brings to life the adventure of the western passage and the pioneer spirit. The sequel to THE BIG SKY, this celebrated novel charts a frontiersman's return to the untamed West in 1846. Dick Summers, as pilot of a wagon train, guides a group of settlers on the difficult journey from Missouri to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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